Down These Mean Streets A Memoir

Name: Down These Mean Streets A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780679781424

ISBN-10: 0679781420

ISBN-13: 9780679781424

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Piri Thomas

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Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Harlem


Cutting Out


Puerto Rican Paradise


Playing It Smooth


Alien Turf


Home Relief


If You Ain't Got Heart, You Ain't Got Nada


Little Red Schoolhouse


In Business


Suburbia


Babylon for the Babylonians


But Not for Me


Harlem


How to Be a Negro Without Really Trying


My Marine Tiger


Hung Up Between Two Sticks


Suburbia


Learning Some New ABC's


Brothers Under the Skin


Funeral for a Prodigal Son


Down South


Gonna Find Out What's Shakin'


Barroom Sociology


Las Aguas del Sur


Harlem


Home, Sweet Harlem


Hung Down


Real Jesse Jameses


Wish It Were You, Trina


If You're Gonna Pray - Then Pray Big


Prison


The House of "Do-Right"


Breaking In


Mucho Days and Nights in Gray


Sex in the Can


No More Mananas for Us, Trina


Sweatin', Man, Sweatin'


God, Ain't You for Everybody?


Great, Man, Great; I'm Thinking Like a Stone Philosopher


New York Town


Free Side Is the Best Side


Hey, Barrio - I'm Home


I Swears to God and the Virgin


Afterword to the Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition


Glossary